Kansas

Storm History: Shawnee County, Kansas

805 episodes, 1,652 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Shawnee County, Kansas: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
1,652
Deaths
26
Injuries
677
Damage
$309 million
Episodes
805

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

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Every year

From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Hail59612$5.0 million
Tornado43518611$285 million
Flash Flood24907$12 million
Thunderstorm Wind16202$214,000
Winter Storm51416$1.0 million
Flood3100$1.5 million
High Wind1801$78,000
Winter Weather17223
Heat14010
Heavy Snow1300$3.5 million
Drought1100
Excessive Heat1000
Lightning901$1.0 million
Dense Fog900
Blizzard600
Cold/Wind Chill500
Ice Storm510
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Funnel Cloud300
Wildfire103$250,000
Strong Wind100$25,000
Sleet101

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Shawnee County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Shawnee CountyEvery warning in Shawnee County since 1986Every county in Kansas

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.